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fredag 28. april 2017
A Caribbean Werewolf Tale - from Derek Walcott's Tales of the Islands
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I have recently been reading some articles touching on one of perhaps most memorable anecdotes from Gerald of Wales' Topographia Hibern...
onsdag 3. juni 2015
St. Kevin and the blackbird
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Today is the feast of St. Kevin, who founded the monastery of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland. He became the monstery's abbot, a...
lørdag 31. januar 2015
Two poems for Saint Brigid of Kildare by Seamus Heaney
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Tomorrow (February 01) is the feast of St Brigid of Kildare, founder and abbess of the monastery of Kildare and one of Ireland's major...
mandag 29. desember 2014
Gerald of Wales and the Irish saints
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This seems to me a thing to be noticed that just as the men of this country are during this mortal life more prone to anger and revenge ...
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fredag 12. desember 2014
The Psalter of Quendrada - a miracle of St Kenelm
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Kenelm holding a virginal lily From the Digby Chantry, St Augustine's Church Ramsgate, John Hardman Powell, mid-19th centu...
lørdag 12. november 2011
Life and Times of Alfred, King of Wessex
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But I have explained this concern for learning how to read among the young and old in order to give some idea of the character of King Al...
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